Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to a group of undergraduate leaders last week, Nikolai Voschchinin, a member of the visiting Soviet Union delegation, said jokingly, "the diplomatic corps in your country has been increased by 12 while we're visiting you, because each of us is a 'diplomat'--a 'diplomat' to increase understanding between our two nations...
This was a complete turnabout from the previous Soviet position in negotiations for a nuclear test ban being carried on here by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union...
Since early this year the Western powers had tried to persuade the Soviet Union that much scientific data the talks are based on is outdated...
...went along with Vice President Richard Nixon on his 1953 trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this fall, so many correspondents and cameramen - 300-odd in all - dogged his trail that they sometimes seemed more to be making the show than covering it (TIME...
...Chevalier, at the time Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, sounded out three Los Alamos scientists with a view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion was treasonable (this exchange, Chevalier later said, took place in the pantry of Oppenheimer's house while the scientist was mixing martinis). To this day there is no conclusive evidence as to which...